Boston Ujima Project Open Member Meeting
w/Arts & Cultural Organizing and Major Investor Outreach Team Breakouts
City Life/Vida Urbana
284 Amory Street, First Floor
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Links to RSVP:
02/07 Ujima Open Member Meeting; 02/07 Ujima Open Member Meeting via Zoom
Arts & Cultural Organizing Team Breakout; Arts & Cultural Organizing Team Breakout via Zoom
Major Investor Outreach Team Breakout; Major Investor Outreach Team Breakout via Zoom
We will continue the process of developing Ujima's Good Business Certification as well as some big picture thinking about financial education and how we want to learn from each other. Last week we examined our current thinking Ownership: Inclusive Ownership. Women, people of color, and women of color in particular are disproportionately excluded from opportunities for business ownership. Enterprises owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs help growth wealth, jobs and resilience in working class communities of color.
At this meeting, we will dig more into Ownership: Employee Ownership. Worker owned cooperatives and employee owned firms allow employees typically excluded from business ownership to build financial wealth. Employee owned firms reward workers for the success of their companies, and tend to be more efficient and equitable in their practices.